The Hollywood Poker Lifestyle

View from my bedroom window my first morning here

So this is the first time I have ever written a blog so let me first give you some quick background on myself. I am 30 years old, married to a beautiful Brazilian woman(Bruna) who is studying Food Science at UMass, and live in Amherst, MA. We have a super cute min pin named Coffee who garners most of our attention. I am currently living in a super baller mansion in West Hollywood with some of the top mid and high stakes players in the world. Don't ask who they are but if you are really curious, its not that hard to find out. I was a  solid winning FTP Rush FR regular spending most of my time at the 100NL FR Rush games but August through November I spent my time in the 400NL Rush games(approx 300K hands of BE poker). I have a Finance degree and spent 7 years in the industry and another 5 years working with my best friend helping him run his business. I am now a full-time professional poker player.

The first question I am sure most of you are thinking is, how did this noob luckbox his way into living in a house with some of poker's elite? Well the answer is pretty simple, in business it's not what you know allot of the time but who you know and I spent allot of time and money in order to get coaching from poker's best imo. Subsequently, I have developed some very strong friendships from these relationships and I was very fortunate when this opportunity presented itself.

So a week before I moved out here I was attuned to become a level 1 Reiki practitioner. I thought this would be something "nice" to do as I have enjoyed receiving Reiki treatments. What I didn't know was that I would literally have a Spiritual awakening while I was out here. Some quick background, I was not religious and/or spiritual in any way shape or form before this.  I am a finance guy, and if it isn't logical and doesn't make sense well then it can be discredited. Since I have been out here(10 days), I have had at least 40 occurences that there is no logical or explainable reason that they could happen. I will elaborate on those in later posts.

As far as poker goes, I feel like I am playing by far the best poker of my life but have been on the worst downswing of my poker career. I think it is at 60 bi's at this point. Needless to say, I have decided to drop down to 50NL as opposed to getting an infusion of funds from many viable options and my grind roll back up. I have about 15 bi's in my poker account for that now and will be playing on Stars for the at least the near future and hopefully wont have to drop down any further. Though I have access to funds if I absolutely need them, I have no stream of income or savings, my bank account is in the red currently and I have $678 on my credit card as my only means of support. I like challenges :)

So this blog will chronicle my successes and failures as I try to attempt to transition into life as a professional poker  player. Strap on your seat belts it is going to be a bumpy and wild ride.

Lastly, you are probably wondering where Jaws fits into this. Well, I absolutely love the movie Jaws and the only remaining shark from these movies is located only 10 miles away in a local junkyard. Before I leave, I will make pilgrimage to this junkyard in order to see Bruce the Shark.

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